Peter Katzenstein's prize for best first book in International Relations, Comparative Politics, or Political Economy. Departament of Government, Cornell University. 2019.

Best Book Prize (2018), Scholarship/Research - International Association for the Study of Organized Crime

University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Seed Grant for project "The impact of marijuana legalization in the US on international criminal networks in Colombia".

Cogut Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University, Fall 2012.

Drugs, Security, and Democracy Fellowship, Social Science Research Council and Open Society Foundation, 2011.

Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2010-2011.

United States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar, 2010-2011.

Tinker Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, Brown University, 2008 and 2009.

Graduate Development Program Fellowship and Summer Travel Grant, Watson Institute, Brown University, 2008 and 2009.

Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences S4 Fellow, Brown University, 2008.

United Nations-Fulbright Fellowship, 2006.

Tinker Travel Grant, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, 2004.

Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies in the US, Barsa Supplemental Award, 2004-2006.

Colfuturo Scholarship, 2004-2006.